Contract with Lordstown non-teaching workers approved

Staff report

LORDSTOWN

The village school district has approved a contract with its 22 nonteaching employees that includes the same three-year wage freeze and improvement in health care that was approved by teachers last May.

Superintendent Bill Pfahler said the board ratified the contract 5-0 after the union approved it earlier Wednesday.

The contract is retroactive to August 2009 and runs through July 2012. It covers secretaries, bus drivers, maintenance and custodial workers and cafeteria staff.

On the low end of the wage scale, cafeteria workers make between $11.77 and $16.06 per hour. On the high end, bus mechanics make between $16.02 and $19.25 per hour.

As with the teachers, the contract reduces health-care costs for workers by eliminating an employee contribution that they had under the old contract.

Pfahler said that provision involves a small increase in cost to the school district.